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  title info:
    title: Opera and sovereignty
    sub title: transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy
  name:
    name part: Feldman, Martha.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    place:
      place term: Chicago
    publisher: University of Chicago Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: xxv, 545 p. : ill. (some col.).
  table of contents: Evenings at the opera. Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. Ritornello form as rhetorical exchange ; The singer as Magus ; Rubbing into magic ; Frame -- Programming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study. Enter nature ; Remaking viewers ; Cruel Phaedra! : Ippolito ed Aricia ; Pastoral redemption, or The old order restored ; Appendix : decree on audience behavior, Parma, October 4, 1749 -- Festivity and time. Time and the calendar ; Festive realms, festive spaces ; Unbridling the Holy City ; Laughter, ridicule, critique ; Nature revisited ; Appendix : edict on abuses in the theater, Rome, January 4, 1749 --
  table of contents: Abandonments in a theater state, Naples, 1764 : second case study. Compounds of royalty ; The sack of the beggars and the gift of the king ; Didone abbandonata : agonism and exchange ; Apocalyptic endings -- Myths of sovereignty. Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification --
  table of contents: Bourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781: third case study. A theater for the middle class ; What class is our genre? : reworking Artaserse ; Whether purses or persons ; Toward the ideology of a bourgeoisie ; Appendix : Annibale Mariotti's speech to the Accademia del Teatro Civico del Verzaro, December 31, 1781 -- Morals and malcontents. Dedications to ladies ; Conversations and femiuomini ; Regarding the senses : continuity, accordance, truth ; The family of opera -- Death of the sovereign, Venice, 1797: fourth case study. The death of time ; Opera in a democratic ascension ; Pratile, June 4 ; La morte di Mitridate ; Summer season : Caesar, Brutus, and Joan of Arc ; Moralizing the spectator.
  note: Martha Feldman.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Opera
    geographic: Italy
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Classical, in opera
  subject:
    topic: Opera
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Italy
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: ML1733.3 .F45 2007eb
  classification: 782.10945/09033
  identifier: 9780226241128 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780226241135 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0226241122 (cloth)
  identifier: 0226241130 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780226044545 (e-book)
  identifier: 2006026243
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
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    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 060809
    record change date: 20171002061100.0
    record identifier: 0000131387